For almost fifty years, Anne Frank's diary has moved millions with its testament to the human spirit's indestructibility, but readers have never seen the full text of this beloved book--until now. This new translation, performed by Winona Ryder,...

South African born Elon Musk is the renowned entrepreneur and innovator behind PayPal, SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity. Musk wants to save our planet; he wants to send citizens into space, to form a colony on Mars; he wants to make money while doing...

The #1 New York Times bestseller 'A powerful story of an exhilarating mind and life...a study in creativity: how to define it, how to achieve it.' --The New Yorker 'Vigorous, insightful.' --The Washington Post 'A masterpiece.' --San Francisco...

The lead singer and songwriter for the Red Hot Chili Peppers presents a searing, candid memoir that captures the bright and dark moments of his life and career, including his descent into drug addiction, and their influence on his musical evolution....

FBI Special Agent and expert in criminal profiling and behavioural science, John Douglas, is a man who has looked evil in the eye and made a vocation of understanding it. Now retired, Douglas can let us inside the FBI elite serial crime unit and into...

In Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future, veteran technology journalist Ashlee Vance provides the first inside look into the extraordinary life and times of Silicon Valley's most audacious entrepreneur. Written with exclusive...

In modern sports, some athletes have managed to transcend their competition in a way that no one will ever forget: Jordan. Jeter. Ali. Williams. These elite legends have changed the game, achieved the unthinkable, and pushed their bodies to...

A long-awaited memoir from the larger-than-life, multifaceted lead vocalist of Iron Maiden, one of the most successful, influential and enduring rock bands ever. Pioneers of Britain’s nascent Rock & Metal scene back in the late 1970s, Iron Maiden...

He was born in England but reared in L.A., surrounded by the leading artists of the day amidst the vibrant hotbed of music and culture that was the early seventies. Slash spent his adolescence on the streets of Hollywood, discovering drugs, drinking,...

A skewering of the American underbelly by the New York Times bestselling author of Seven Deadly Sins, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Heaven, and You're Making Me Hate You The always-outspoken hard rock vocalist Corey Taylor begins America 51...

The first authoritative biography--featuring dozens of rarely seen photographs--of film legend Bruce Lee, who made martial arts a global phenomenon, bridged the divide between Eastern and Western cultures, and smashed long-held stereotypes of Asians...

A dazzling account of the life and thought of Adam Smith, the greatest economist of all time Adam Smith (1723-1790) is now widely regarded as the greatest economist of all time. But what he really thought, and the implications of his ideas, remain...

A behind-the-scenes look into the life of Meghan Markle and her romance with Prince Harry--a dishy, delightful must-read filled with exclusive insights for anyone obsessed with the Royal Family.Leslie Carroll's books on royalty are 'an irresistible...

In this instant and tenacious New York Times bestseller, Nike founder and board chairman Phil Knight 'offers a rare and revealing look at the notoriously media-shy man behind the swoosh' (Booklist, starred review), illuminating his company's early...

A deeply moving memoir about a young couple whose lives were changed in the blink of an eye, and the love that helped them rewrite their future Five months pregnant, on a flight to their 'babymoon,' Allison Pataki turned to her husband when he asked...

Excerpt from The Town, Vol. 1: Its Memorable Characters and Events; St. Paul's to St. James's The public approbation of these volumes will be the strongest inducement that the Author could desire to complete his account of London, by extending his...

Excerpt from In Memory of John McCullough When John mccullough, a youth Of fifteen, came to America he could read, but he could not write. He had received no education, and he was in ignorance of literature and art. Dying thirty-eight years later he...

Excerpt from The Life and Letters of William Cowper, Vol. 3: With Remarks on Epistolary Writers To Samuel Rose, Esq., Sept. 13, 1790. On his marriage Cowper's preface to his Homer solution of the riddle in a former letter to Mr. R. About the...

Excerpt from Tales of My Landlord, Vol. 1 of 4: Fourth and Last Series Did I but purpose to embark with thee On the smooth surface of some summer sea, But would forsake the waves, and make the shore, When the winds whistle, and the billows roar?...

Excerpt from John Leech, Vol. 2 of 2: His Life and Work I think oit was Dickens who said that a big cock-pheasant rising in covert under one's nose was like a firework let Off in that locality. Elsewhere we have Leech's rendering of the idea. About...

Excerpt from Walt Whitman at Home IT Is not a little difficult to write an article about Walt Whitman's home, for it was humorously said by himself, not long ago, that he had all his life possessed a home only in the sense that a ship pos sesses one....

Excerpt from Germany, Present, Vol. 2 of 2: And Past Constantine delivers the Christian Church from persecution. The prologue ends with Perseus giving Andromeda over to the charge of his friend Phineus. The first act represents Constantine's camp and...

Excerpt from A Christian Hero Lord wolseley, on hearing an officer say that General Gordon was mad, remarked, in language similar to that used by George II. To the Duke of Newcastle about General Wolfe, that it was a great pity Gordon had not bitten...

George Lucas by Brian Jay Jones is the first comprehensive telling of the story of the iconic filmmaker and the building of his film empire, as well as of his enormous impact on cinema. At once a biography, a business manual, and a film history,...

Excerpt from Robert E. Lee the Southerner The subject is not one to be dealt with in the language of eulogy. To attempt to decorate it with panegyric would but belittle it. What the writer proposes to say will be based upon public records, or on the...

Excerpt from Memoir of William Madison Peyton, of Roanoke: Together With Some of His Speeches in the House of Delegates of Virginia, and His Letters in Reference to Secession and the Threatened Civil War in the United States, Etc;, Etc He is...

Excerpt from Benjamin Apthorp Gould Dr. Gould entered Harvard College, and was graduated there in 1844. We have the assurance of one of his class mates that he did not in the earlier part of his collegiate course display any especial predilection for...

Excerpt from Devereux, Vol. 2 of 2 Book IV. Chapter I. A Re-entrance into Life through the Ebon Gate Afi'liction. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This...

Excerpt from The Story of the Life of Pius the Ninth The reader can control the justice of the deductions for himself.' I have striven honestly to estimate both the Pope and the man, fairly and with due reference to the circumstances in which he has...

Excerpt from The Journal of George Fox Edited From the Mss, 1911 About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical...

Excerpt from The Works of Benjamin Franklin, Vol. 8: Including the Private as Well as the Official and Scientific Correspondence; Together With the Unmutilated and Correct Version of the Autobiography Character Of the French people too many...

Excerpt from History of Pocomoke City, Formerly New Town: From Its Origin to the Present Time Roman Catholic. He would hold family prayer on Sabbath morning, and would teach the children the prayers of that Church, such as the Lord's prayer, the...

Excerpt from Catherine De' Medici There is generally a cry of paradox when scholars, having discovered a historical error, seek to correct it; but whoever has studied modern history with care cannot doubt that historians are privileged liars who lend...

Excerpt from Wonderful Characters, Vol. 1: Comprising Memoirs and Anecdotes of the Most Remarkable Persons of Every Age and Nation; Collected From the Most Authentic Sources Young Carew was soon initiated into some-of the arts of the wandering tribe,...

Excerpt from Life-Stories of Famous Men: George Jacob Holyoake Holyoake was born in Birmingham on April 13, 1817. He was the son of a foreman in the Eagle Foundry, who wore drab breeches and shining top-boots of a Sunday. His mother, a pious woman,...

Excerpt from The Voyages of Captain James Cook, Vol. 1 of 2: Illustrated With Maps and Numerous Engravings on Wood; With an Appendix, Giving an Account of the Present Condition of the South Sea Islands, &C Io. Passage from St. Helena to the Western...

Excerpt from Memorial Record of Distinguished Men of Indianapolis and Indiana At Landersdale, Morgan county, Indiana, a place named in honor of the family of which he was a member, Franklin Landers was born on the 22nd of March, 1825, and was a son...

Excerpt from Kingcraft in Scotland, and Other Essays and Sketches In the Scoticnronzcon the following is given as the oath taken by the early Scottish kings at their coronation In the name of Christ I promise these three things to the Christian...

Excerpt from Biographical Sketches of Great and Good Men: Designed for the Amusement and Instruction of Young Persons Ning down from the heavens this led him to apply his knowledge to a practical use, by the introduction of lightning rods and to this...

Excerpt from Beethoven's Letters, Vol. 1: A Critical Edition With Explanatory Notes This appears to be the special task of biography to present the man in relation to his times, and to show how far as a whole they are opposed to him, in how far they...

Excerpt from A Discourse Occasioned by the Death of the Hon. John Quincy Adams: Delivered in the Rowe Street Baptist Church, February 27, 1848 It would not be right to allow such an occasion to pass unimproved. It hath its voice. To give it then a...